The third album of Icelandic musician and producer Olafur Arnalds, For Now I am Winter, is intricately woven from repeating piano rhythms, delicate strings and loops to create a haunting and unsettling effect. From the opening track ‘Sudden Throw’ it…
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EP | Little Green Cars – Harper Lee
The keys are in the ignition and the engine is revving: Little Green Cars are on their way. They are a five-piece band from Dublin who made it onto the BBC Sound of 2013 shortlist – as well as the…
EP | Worry Dolls – Worry Dolls
Like fish without chips or Wallace without Gromit, when listening to Worry Dolls its hard to imagine what Rosie or Zoe might have sounded like as the two solo artists who met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and…
New Bands Panel | Men’s Adventures – Blood Bride Sessions EP
Spinning tales steeped in lust, murder and betrayal, Men’s Adventures take their inspiration from “broken hearts, fiction and fantasy” and, suited and booted in get up straight off the set of The Good, The Bad & the Ugly, have recently been spotted bringing…
Album | Woodpigeon – Thumbtacks and Glue
Mark Andrew Hamilton has the notion in Thumbtacks and Glue that what characterises one’s life is a myriad of little things, rather than one or two great experiences, influences or tragedies. He has mentioned the parallel of Gulliver in Lilliput,…
Album | Eels – Wonderful, Glorious
Mark Oliver Everett is, without doubt, the most consistently bipolar songwriter of our times. Shuttling between the rhapsodies of Daisies of the Galaxy and the chill misery of Electro Shock Blues, the scuzzy rage of Souljacker and the dejected tones of…
Album | Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In
Bookended by a pair of songs about phoning people who don’t want to talk, Caitlin Rose’s The Stand-In is a wide-ranging adventure in heartbreak, disagreement, and loving in the wrong direction on a regular basis.
Album | Ed Harcourt – Back Into The Woods
Written in one month and recorded in six hours; Ed Harcourt’s PR company would have you believe that the best angle on his latest album, Back Into the Woods is the story of its creation. They’d be totally wrong though.…
Album | Heidi Talbot – Angels Without Wings
Of course it’s the voice. Heidi Talbot’s charming new album Angels Without Wings has so much about it to like: there are enough guest stars to make for a modest party – and the “host” musicians led by her husband…
Album | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
After two albums of letting it all hang out with Grinderman, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have produced an album of subtle beauty, a soothing antidote to the garage noise of a mid-life crisis put to music. Returning to…